The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
PERSONAL.

Mr.. AND MRS ARCHIBALD FORBES will spend
most of the winter in Augusta, Ga.
Rev. G. H. SPURGEoN is credited with having
declined an offer of $4,000 for 100 lectures to
be delivered in this country.
MISS ADELE GRANT, the young woman who
declined to marry Earl Cairns, will be one of
the leading bellies of Washington society this
winter
In the last sermon preached by the late DR..
Barton, of Hartford, who was then apparently
in perfect health, he quoted the famous poem
IF Should Die Tonight
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. the English nov
elist, has derived so much benefit from so
iourn in the Adirondack region that he Intends
to pass the cold weather at Saranac Lake.
WHEN Prince Bismarck received from Lord
Ranelagh a writing desk made from cannon
balls he exclaimed: God grant that cannon
balls may always be as peacefully employed"
THE ex-Nlnster to Sweden W. W. Thomas,
Jr, of Portland, Me-, was married ON Oct. II in
stockholm to Miss Dagmar Elizabeth Torne-
blad, the daughter of the wellknown Swedish
statesman.
ARCHIE MCLACHLAN, discoverer of the Tread
well mine in Alaska has recently closed out his
mining interests north of Lenga Island to o San
Francisco syndicate for S750,0OO He now in
tends to give up prospecting.
JESSE SHARP of Brandywine Hundred, DEL
gave the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany six acres of land, on condition that they
erect a station on 1t. Now trains stop there
daily, people get ON and off, and the whole of
Sharps farm is rapidly increasing IN value.
JOAQUIN MILLER has become reconciled tb his
favorite daughter Maud who incurred his dis
pleasure by marrying Loudon S. Mccormack.
the actor. They now correspond regularly.
She and her husband have not prospered on the
stage, and are now in st. Louis out of engage
ments
SCHUYLER BRINKERHoFF JACKSON, the Repub-
lican candidate for Mayor. of Newark, was a
student at Yale His beauty made him famous,
and the girls used to go to the chapel to stare at
him and rave about him. But he was a woman
hater then, and fought shy of the girls, to their
deep sorrow.
THE daughter of President Hughes, of the
Keokuk and Western railroad, was secretly mar
ried to Alexander Moore, a millionaire Cafor
mia ranch owner, last August This week she
Arprised her family and relatives in Keokuk by
sending out her wedding cards and gong West
to join her husband.
WAJID AID, the dead King of Oudh, was
poet whose renown extends from the HiIila-
layas to Cape Comorin, for his love songs have
obtained an immense popularity throughout
India. His majesty received pension of $780,
900 year from the Indian government, which
will be continued to his heirs.
WILLIAM GILBERT, of Winsted, Conn who has
given 100000 for the erection and maintenance
of an orphan asylum in that place. has decided
to give the town public academy, and is
arranging plans for the structure. The orphan
asylum, which will be known as the Gilbert
Home, will be completed in ayear.
Mrs. PRocroR, widow of Barry Cornwall is
the most interesting old lady in London So
ciety She is e years of. age. but goes every
where as the phrase is, and is eminently popu-
lar for her wit, good spirits and conversational
powers. Charles Dickens used to say that when
he wanted ito brighten up he went to see Mrs.
Proctor.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, often causes annoy
ance and embarrassment by taking fancy to any
little novelty which he may see in the hands of
any of his courtiers His majesty will show
such an intense desire TO possess il that finally
the object is offered him. but it is always re-
placed by q present of double or triple its
pecuniary value.
Rev. SAMUEL f. Gross, of Chicago, whose
zeal in pleading for larger social privileges for
shop gir.S and seamstresSeS led to an insurrec-
ton among his congregation, has, Since his
vindication, been following up that line of work.
He has preached six weekly sermons to young
women and thor employers which have at
tracted much attention
JAMES BURRELL ANGELLs of Michigan one of
the gentlemenwho have been selected by Sec
rotary Bayard to act with him in the fisheries
negotiations is a man of exceptional cultivation.
AT the age of "a he was professor OF modern Ian
guages and literature at the Brown University
Later he was made President of the University
of Vermont and of the University of Michigan.
Mr.. BIAINEs wonderful memory for names
as well as faces is well known, and he declares
that he cultivated the faculty in early life by
always indexing alphabetically all names, so
that when he meets a face he recognizes the
initial always comes up in his mind. and aids
him to recall the patronymc. Sometimes he
cannot recall the names and then he contents
himself with addressing the.ssntleman by his
initial until he secures the naHeby some casual
remark